Official Samsung Battery Performance Talk

[revaaron]

7:25am to 11:25am = 100% to 70% with only about 10 txt sent and nothing else.

[jdizzle]

gTen....thanks for you help...you were right........cleared out all my apps, and my battery life is back to good. I had some rogue app that kept my phone from sleeping. I basically wiped all of my apps and am going to re-install them one at a time to see which one is the culprit.

so word of advice to all you guys with bad battery life....clear all your apps, and see if you battery performance improves. I bet you it does dramatically...then reinstall them one at a time and see which ones are preventing your device from sleeping.


Thanks again for your help gTen.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by jdizzle

gTen....thanks for you help...you were right........cleared out all my apps, and my battery life is back to good. I had some rogue app that kept my phone from sleeping. I basically wiped all of my apps and am going to re-install them one at a time to see which one is the culprit.

so word of advice to all you guys with bad battery life....clear all your apps, and see if you battery performance improves. I bet you it does dramatically...then reinstall them one at a time and see which ones are preventing your device from sleeping.


Thanks again for your help gTen.

Thats good to hear

[Wunder]

Originally Posted by jdizzle

gTen....thanks for you help...you were right........cleared out all my apps, and my battery life is back to good. I had some rogue app that kept my phone from sleeping. I basically wiped all of my apps and am going to re-install them one at a time to see which one is the culprit.

so word of advice to all you guys with bad battery life....clear all your apps, and see if you battery performance improves. I bet you it does dramatically...then reinstall them one at a time and see which ones are preventing your device from sleeping.


Thanks again for your help gTen.

PLEASEfill us in if you find the culprit app.

[Wunder]

Please do not post here unless you have definitive results from a controlled test!

There are some apps out there that aren't letting our devices sleep, causing people to have TERRIBLE battery drain!

LET'S TAKE BACK OUR BATTERY LIFE!

I'm going to work here under the assumption that the stock apps on my Epic4g are not to blame. So what's left to do? Wipe CLEAN all my new apps from the device, and install them 1 by 1 while testing for screen not sleeping and other battery drain issues.

I will be editing this 1st post as I add each app and discover if it's GUILTY or INNOCENT of draining my precious battery! I encourage you to do the same, please compile a list like the one below, please specify if you're rooted or not, and for GUILTY apps PLEASE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE THE BATTERY ISSUE THAT COMES WITH THE APP. I'm calling on the power of this brilliant community to squash this bug!


GUILTY APPS:

Thanks to DaddyMikey1975 for bringing this to my attention. According to this over at XDA and fix for battery issues on Android Forums it seems as if Samsung and/or Sprint need to update our radios. Our devices are set to WCDMA by default. So they're searching for a WCDMA tower and can't find one. This could prevent the phone from going to sleep as well.

To check and see if your device has been plagued w/ this illness, to go Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use > Cell Standby.. look for "Time without Service".. Mine was at 52%.. THIS could kill our batteries as well as keep the phone from sleeping. This also explains why Juice Defender works so well. It shuts down the data connection, thereby preventing the phone from hunting for a WCDMA signal and allowing the device to sleep.

*EDIT* This appears to have been fixed with the DI07 update...



GPS. Try turning this off and only using it when you actually need it, see what happens with your battery life.




INNOCENT APPS:

Advance Ruler Pro
ADW Launcher
Air Control (air traffic control game)
App manager
Armored Strike (Tank Game)
Asphalt
Beautiful Widgets (and a ton of clock/weather themes) +1
Bloo
Tetris
Chomp SMS
Contact Widget
DirecTV
DirecTV Sunday Ticket
Dish Pointer Pro
Dungeon Hunter (Gameloft-High Rez 3d game)
espn fantasy football '10
engadget
Facebook
FoxyRing
Funambol sync
Google Goggles +1
Google Voice
Google Maps Update
Google Sky Map
GPS test
Guitar Hero World Tour
homerun derby 3
iRadio
Juice Defender (with Ultimate Juice add-on)
Kayak
Lithium Music Player
Live Wallpapers: Stonerview app, Galaxy
Lookout (I do not have virus scan enabled FWIW)
Mabilo wallpapers
Maps (google maps)
Nesoid
NFS Shift
Palringo
Pandora +1
pdanet +1
Physx Live wallpaper
RadioTime
Retro Camera
Scan2PDF Mobile
ScanLife
Scanner Radio
Slacker Radio
Snowflakes Live Wallpaper
Solitaire Deluxe
Sound Manager
Speed Test
Superuser
Teeter
Tikl
Tunewiki
Twitter
TV guide mobile
Ultimate favs pro
Weather & toggle widgets
Weatherbug
Wells Fargo
wireless tether pre 9
wordfeud
XDA app
Yahoo Fantasy Football '10
Zedge.





POWER HUNGRY APPS
(Innocent apps that drain battery quickly, like YouTube)


All GAMES
Exchange Sync
Fring
Push To Talk
Yahoo Fantasy Football

[daddymikey1975]

After poor batt. life, I wiped my device and currently have the following apps on my phone and I'm getting SUPERB battery life. (Juice defender is a contributor to the great life as well that's why it's listed).

Innocent apps (on my device currently):
Advance Ruler Pro
ADW Launcher
Air Control (air traffic control game)
App manager
Asphalt
Beautiful Widgets (and a ton of clock/weather themes)
Bloo
Tetris
Chomp SMS
Contact Widget
Dish Pointer Pro
Facebook
FoxyRing
Fring
Funambol sync
Google Goggles
Google Sky Map
GPS test
Guitar Hero World Tour
iRadio
Juice Defender (with Ultimate Juice add-on)
Lithium Music Player
Lookout (I do not have virus scan enabled FWIW)
Mabilo wallpapers
Maps (google maps)
Nesoid
NFS Shift
Palringo
Pandora
Physx Live wallpaper
RadioTime
Scan2PDF Mobile
ScanLife
Scanner Radio
Slacker Radio
Snowflakes Live Wallpaper
Solitaire Deluxe
Sound Manager
Speed Test
Stonerview app (live wallpaper)
Teeter
Tikl
Tunewiki
TV guide mobile
Ultimate favs pro
Weather & toggle widgets
Weatherbug
XDA app
Zedge.

These are the apps I currently have, and I have excellent battery life. There are a few apps that I did not re-install after the wipe, but meh.. I don't remember which ones LMFAO..

Hope this helps..

[jdizzle]

Thx for starting this thread. I think this will come in helpful for us all
My battery is back to good. The apps I'm running so far that are innocent are:

*wireless tether pre 9
*superuser
*homerun derby 3
*beautiful widgets
*espn fantasy football '10
*engagdet
*wordfeud
*pdanet

[Wunder]

Originally Posted by jdizzle

Thx for starting this thread. I think this will come in helpful for us all
My battery is back to good. The apps I'm running so far that are innocent are:

*wireless tether pre 9
*superuser
*homerun derby 3
*beautiful widgets
*espn fantasy football '10
*engagdet
*wordfeud
*pdanet

Thanks for picking up the ball on this! I'll add this to the 1st post. The "Innocent" list will be no place for debate, if anyone at all reports a problem with an "innocent" app, that app is proclaimed GUILTY!!

[Wunder]

Originally Posted by daddymikey1975

After poor batt. life, I wiped my device and currently have the following apps on my phone and I'm getting SUPERB battery life. (Juice defender is a contributor to the great life as well that's why it's listed).

Innocent apps (on my device currently):
Advance Ruler Pro
ADW Launcher
Air Control (air traffic control game)
App manager
Asphalt
Beautiful Widgets (and a ton of clock/weather themes)
Bloo
Tetris
Chomp SMS
Contact Widget
Dish Pointer Pro
Facebook
FoxyRing
Fring
Funambol sync
Google Goggles
Google Sky Map
GPS test
Guitar Hero World Tour
iRadio
Juice Defender (with Ultimate Juice add-on)
Lithium Music Player
Lookout (I do not have virus scan enabled FWIW)
Mabilo wallpapers
Maps (google maps)
Nesoid
NFS Shift
Palringo
Pandora
Physx Live wallpaper
RadioTime
Scan2PDF Mobile
ScanLife
Scanner Radio
Slacker Radio
Snowflakes Live Wallpaper
Solitaire Deluxe
Sound Manager
Speed Test
Stonerview app (live wallpaper)
Teeter
Tikl
Tunewiki
TV guide mobile
Ultimate favs pro
Weather & toggle widgets
Weatherbug
XDA app
Zedge.

These are the apps I currently have, and I have excellent battery life. There are a few apps that I did not re-install after the wipe, but meh.. I don't remember which ones LMFAO..

Hope this helps..

Awesome. Your screen is no longer staying awake?

[daddymikey1975]

Originally Posted by Wunder

Awesome. Your screen is no longer staying awake?

Nope. It seems as if it's good. I unplugged my phone Tuesday morning w/ a full charge (according to the phone's "full battery" message. At lunchtime yesterday I had a tiny bit of blue left in my indicator so I plugged it back in while at work to get it back to 100%.. I went a day and a half (with normal usage for me) without needing to charge it. FWIW.. I was very excited to see that the battery didn't lose any life overnight (as it had before I wiped it)..

exciting stuff..

(if you want, I'll try and look for the apps that I had before, re-install one at a time to see if I can find any 'guilty' ones :P )

EDIT: for the fun of it, I might remove juice defender/ultimate juice this weekend and see if battery performance changes as well (significantly)..